关于火柴的起源现今存在两种说法。第一种说法指最早的火柴是起源于中国,北宋人陶谷的《清异录》中记载着百姓已经学会用一种涂上硫磺的杉木条引火,之后通过马可波罗传入欧洲。另一种说法指火柴出现于古罗马时期,当时的商人将木柴浸泡在硫磺中,作为一种取火工具出售。1826年,英国的沃克利用树胶和水制成了膏状的硫化锑和氯化钾,涂在火柴梗上并夹在砂纸上拉动便产生火,这就是后来一度 About the origin of matches There are two versions of the present. The first argument is that the earliest matches originated in China. The records of people in the Qing Dynasty recorded by Taogu of the Northern Song Dynasty recorded that the people had learned to use a kind of fir-tree coated with sulfur and then introduced them into Europe through Marco Polo. Another argument is that matches came in Roman times, when businessmen traded firewood in sulfur and sold it as a fire-fighting aid. In 1826, Walker in the United Kingdom used gum and water to make paste-like antimony sulfide and potassium chloride, painted on matchstick and sandwiched between sandpaper to create a fire, which was later